EGR 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Endangerment, Hugh Stubbins, Outer Perimeter
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Ethics the discipline pertaining to principles of right conduct. Moral pertaining to principles of correct or incorrect behaviour. Ethics guide people to behave in the right way. People traditionally learn right and wrong from parents or religions that emphasize a right path . Virtually all people agree with notions of honesty, integrity and treating others how we wish to be treated. We need ethics in order to set a professional standard that can be agreed upon by all people in our society regardless of how diverse and varied people are. Ethics gives us guidelines on what to do in different situations of life that lessons learned from home or religious forums may not have prepared us for. In the case of competing obligations (with priorities that naturally seem subjective to us) that affect several stakeholders (clients users, immediate public government etc. ) professional codes of ethics allows us to reconcile these conflicts.
